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Quote by Walter Bagehot
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. – Walter Bagehot

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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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Walter Bagehot
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
History
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Walter Bagehot
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. – Walter Bagehot

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Death
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Walter Bagehot
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Family
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Cruel is the strife of brothers. – Aristotle

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Family

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. – Maureen OHara

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Family

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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Family

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wifes family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me. – Tiger Woods

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Family

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I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% weve always found a hole. – Kevin Mitnick

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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Trust

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. – Terri Guillemets

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God

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building wont crumble. – Henry Kravis

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